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It used to be easier to identify villains. There were good guys and bad guys … settlers and Indians, Americans and communists, us and them. We like to point a finger at somebody else when things don’t …

It’s just a piece of paper, really, and not a very pretty one. It is singed around the edges because of a fire nearly a century ago, and it’s filled with words alone … no pictures, that is, which some …

Several Times Union staffers are being honored tonight in Syracuse at the New York State Associated Press Association annual meeting for work in 2006-2007. And Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain …

Before e-mail and text messaging, nobody knew about emoticons … you know, those punctuation collections that create something looking vaguely like a facial expression. Back then, writers who couldn’t …